The weather in the UK must improve soon and allow us to visit those places beloved of our ancestors who lived in this part of Somerset! We are looking forward for a fine day and meeting you on July 14th when we have our Open Day at St Paul's Church Hall (BS23 1DF). Representatives from neighbouring Family and Local History Societies and Groups will be on hand to answer your questions and hopefully suggest ways of breaking down those brick walls. It's FREE entry from 10.00am - 4.00pm. See here for more information. During the mornings of July 3rd and July 5th we have been invited to help the young people of Worle School who have included Family History Research as one of their options for the end of year enrichment days. Thank you to those local volunteers who have agreed to take part - It is always enjoyable to be at these sessions and perhaps share our enthusiam for this way of making history come alive by making personal links with the past. Saturdays July 7th and 21st will be the last Help Sessions in the Library in the Boulevard in Weston. There will be no library meetings during August and September so please watch this site for information when these sessions will start again in the newly refurbished Library premises in the Town Hall. Of course if you have any problems about your research you can submit a query to our Research Forum on this site and one of our members may have the answer. It's always worth a try and as you can see not all the queries are about Weston and District. Some of our families did not stay in one place for long. At our monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 31st Elizabeth White, a local historian, who now lives at Pill will be talking about her "Queer Little Village". Pill, situated mear the mouth of the River Avon has a long connection with the Bristol Channel Pilots who for centuries have guided shipping through the sometimes treacherous waters of the Severn estuary. There is no monthly meeting in August and at the September meeting we will be looking at the care and restoration of old photographs. If you are out and about in August with a camera we would be very interested in new photographs of the villages and towns which make up the area covered by the Weston-super-Mare and District family History Society. Paul Tracey is always interested in items for the Journal, Buckets & Spades, and any picture which illustrates part of your family's history would be welcome. | 
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